WOW Easter Eggs (Azeroth Locales)

Azeroth Area "Easter Eggs"

Here are some intended, and sometimes unintended tricks and "fun" tips for World of Warcraft. These may not make you richer, but they WILL enrich your overall gaming experience!

Have fun. These were posted with permission from the original author.

Ironforge
Name: Nessy
Location: IF-SW; Deeprun Tram
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: If you jump off onto the walkway while going by on the tram or pass
at the right time, you can see a Thresadon swim around named Nessy, obviously
a reference to Scotland's Loch Ness monster.
Note: N/A

Name: Mermaid
Location: IF-SW; Deeprun Tram
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: If you look out in the water near some sunken ships, you can see a
Naga named Little Mermaid, an obvious referance to Disney's animated movie.
Note: N/A

Name: I'm a bit cooked.
Location: Ironforge - Military District
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: In the Military Distrcit in the large building where hunters &
warriors receive training you can go to a Siege Engine depot where you'll find
a dwarf dressed like a mechanic. His name is Xiggs Fuselighter, a play on
Star War's Biggs Darklighter, who was Luke's cover on the Death Star run.
Note: N/A

Name: Barnum, Bailey and Soleil
Location: Ironforge - Bank
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg:
The bankers are from the same family. Their first names are all circus related.
Barnum and Bailey are the famous circus promoters. While Soleil is a reference
to the Famous Cirque du soleil. Perhaps they were former circus clowns now
working in Corporate Ironforge.
Note:

Name: Old Ironforge
Location: Ironforge - King's Throneroom
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: In Ironforge, there is the ancient city of Ironforge. First jump
into the molten pit inside the great forge to enter ghost form. Walk back into
IF and go into the King's Throneroom. There should be two doors against the
wall, walk into the left one and then revive on the other side. You should be
able to explore the original Ironforge. When you want to leave, hearth out.
Note: Some people say they cannot get inside, even while in spirit form, I
haven't checked (but will soon) but it is possible Blizzard has restricted it
in a recent patch.

Stormwind City
Name: Child Gossip
Location: Stormwind City - Canals
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: There's two kids who talk about various things that are only myths
to them, but in reality can be found throughout the game. One of the children
talks about how he found a three eyed fish, a refrence to mutation.
Note: N/A

Name: Woo Ping - Weapon Master
Location: Stormwind - Trade District
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: A pun on the word 'whooping'. A fightermight give you a good,
solid whooping.
Note: N/A

Name: Under Siege
Location: Stormwind - Old Town - Pig & Whistle Tavern
Coordinates:
Easter Egg: In Old Town, Pig & Whistle Tavern, go downstairs. The cooks name
is Steven Ryback, an obvious play on Steven Segal's character Casey Ryback,
the navy cook in Under Siege.
Note:

Name: Alligator in The Sewers
Location: Stormwind City - Canals
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: You can find a giant alligator around the canals.
Note: N/A

Name: Blizzard Employees
Location: Stormwind City
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: A teacher walks around town with a bunch of kids, all of whome have
names of Blizzard Employees.
Note: N/A

Name: Salute
Location: Stormwind City - Valley of Heros
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: If you salute the Guard on horse there who's named Jonathan Marcus
or something, he will salute you back. You can also bow or wave to him, and he
will return the favor. People say that other emotes have affects as well. If
you flex at him, he will "appear unimpressed".
Note: N/A

Name: Dancing Barmaids
Location: Stormwind City - Inns
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: You can dance with the barmaids you find throughout Stormwind.
Note: N/A

Name: Who you gonna call?
Location: Stormwind City
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: There's a mage quest where you have to capture "blue recluse" which
have infested a tavern in the mage district. You capture the ghosts inside
special containers. This is a refrence to the movie Ghostbusters.
Note: N/A

Name: For a burger today.
Location: Stormwind City
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: Topper McNab in the aisle of Stormwind sometimes yells out, "I
will gladly pay you for a hamburger today". A refrence to Popeye
the sailor man cartoon.
Note: N/A

Name: Where everybody knows your name!
Location: Stormwind City
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: There's a man walking around with a mug that advertises for the
Blue Recluse, a tavern. One of his advertisements is, "Head on down to the
Blue Recluse where everybody knows your name!".
Note: N/A

Name: Slaughter
Location: Stormwind City - Mage District
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: There's a movie called American Wolf in London, in it there's a
pub called the Slaughtered Lamb, as in Stormwind there is the inn called
the Slaugtered Lamb, which is home to Warlocks and the like.
Note: N/A

Name: Stormsing Bankers
Location: Stormwind City - Bank
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: The tree bankers in Stormwind are named left to right, Olivia,
Newtown and John, a reference to the singer/actress Olivia Newton John.
Note: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000556/

Name: Intelligence Agency
Location: Stormwind City, Elwynn Forest
Easter Egg: There is an organization, based in stormwind, named "SI:7." This
is in reference to the British Intelligence agency MI:6.
Notes: N/A

Don Morgoh
Name: Dwarven/Gnomish Airbase
Location: Dun Morgoh
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: When Flying from IF to Menethil (and possibly other places) you can
see an airbase up in the mountains that is unreachable by any normal methods.
Garret tells me, that with the help of a mount you can reach this by jumping.
There's some guards and a hunter trainer up there, I'll check this out as soon
as I can.
Note: N/A

Name: Mortar Team Practice Fire
Location: Dun Morgoh - Khranos
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: You can find a Dwarven Mortar team, that looks exactly the same as
in Warcraft 3. If you do the quest to give them their ammo, they're reinact
a whole scene. They use the exact sound files from Warcraft 3. One of the
Mortar Team's comments is a reference to an AC/DC song.
Note: N/A

Name: Dwarf Woman
Location: Dun Morgoh - Khranos
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: In one of the basements of a dwarven house is a poster of a bikini
clad female human. Looks like Dwarves don't like dwarven woman either.
Note: N/A

Name: Tech Support Bot
Location: Dun Morgoh - Gnomeregan
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: If you listen to Tech Bot while he's idle or fighting, he says
various quotes that Tech Support or other kind of things say. He has a spell
called "Battle Net" which slows the target. He also has an attack called,
Linkdead.
Note: N/A

Name: They've set us up the bomb.
Location: Dun Morgoh - Gnomeregan
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: The walking alarm bomb things look alot like Bob-Ombs of Mario.
Note: N/A

Name: Dupe
Location: Dun Morgoh - Gnomeregan
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: In Gnomeregan you can find "Dupe Bugs" which are a refrence to in
general duplication bugs that can be found in games. One of the major producers
of this was Diablo and Diablo 2 where item duplication was second hand.
Note: N/A

Name: Beam Me Up
Location: Dun Morgoh - Gnomeregan / Stranglethorn Vale - Booty Bay
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: There's a goblin named sprok near the teleporter inside Gnomeregan.
On a similar note in Booty Bay there is a goblin next to a teleporter named
Scooty, with the title, Chief Enginner. A refrence to Star Trek's "Chief
Engineer Scotty".
Note: N/A

Name: Binary
Location: Dun Morgoh - Gnomeregan
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: The 3005 Punch Card Machines all have numbers on them, which in
binary translate to various phrases, you can get the following:
"Thrall and Jaina sitting ina tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G"
"If you can read this u're standing too close"
"The gnome king wears night elf underwear"
"Help! I'm trapped in a binary punch card factory!"
(Play on the popular line of "Help! I'm trapped in a X factory.")
"Tell your friends to play WoW"
"Play the Warcarft roleplaying game"
(I think this is from the banners that used to span the top part of
Battle.Net in Warcraft 3 and Starcraft.)
"Kiss me, I'm gnomish!"
("Toast" says this is a refernce to a Simpsons Tree House of Horror
Episode, but I'm fairly certain, being Irish myself, that this is a play on the
bumpersticker/t-shirt phrase "Kiss Me, I'm Irish". Although I guess it could
be a reference to The Simpsons.)
"The Lich King lives!"
(Tsuru Hiromi Inochi tells me this is a refrence to Elvis Presley. The
fact that Elvis had a closed coffin funeral and many thought he was still
alive or did not want to belive that the King of Rock'n'Roll was dead. "The
KingLives!".)
"Go go go!!"
(Starcraft Marine Reference Here I Think)
"Natalie Portman Rocks"
"Gnomeregan forever!"
"Play More WoW"
Note: N/A

Loch Modan

Wetlands
Name: Crashed Pilot
Location: Wetlands
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: When flying from Wetlands to Ironforge you can see a crashed gnome
plane on the side of the mountain.
Note: N/A

Badlands
Name: The Lost Vikings
Location: Badlands - Uldaman
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: You can find 3 lost dwarf, who represent the Lost Vikings, one of
Blizzard's classic games.
Note: N/A

Name: Grimlok
Location: Badlands - Uldaman
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: When he attacks he shouts, "ME GRIMLOK, KING!". The T-Rex
transformer of the dinobots was named Grimlock. He was the king.
Note: N/A

Name: Indiana Jones
Location: Badlands - Uldaman
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: One quest has you gather an amulet and a staff and put them
togther then insert it into a minature city. A refrence to Indian Jones
and the Raiders of The Lost Ark.
Note: N/A

Name: Crom
Location: Badlands
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: There's a crypt atop a mountain in Badlands, inside is a large
skeleton with a sword in hand. This is a reference to Conan the Barbarian.
Note: N/A

Name: A Real Boy
Location: The Badlands
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: There's a mechanical NPC called Little Servo, who sometimes says,
"Someday I'll be a real boy". Crumsnatcher tells me that when you meet him he
says something similar to, "I'm familiar with 4 languages". This may be a
refrence to C3PO in Star Wars where he talks about being a protocol droid and
knows millions of languages.
Note: N/A

Searing Gorge

Burning Steppes
Name: Taunts
Location: Burning Steps - Blackrock Spire
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: When you're in the "event" fighting Lord Victor Nefarius and
Warchief Rend Blackhand will shout out taunts. Such as...
"Served"
"Woot!"
"You idiots! Kill the one in the dress!"
"Inconceivable"
(Tsuru Hiromi Inochi tells me this is a refrence to "The Princess Bride",
one of the antagonists mentions this movie several times.)
Note: N/A

Name: Cockroaches
Location: Burning Steppes
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: The Ember Worgs play with the cockroaches there.
Note: N/A

Red Ridge Mountains
Name: Lindsay Davenport
Location: Red Ridge Mountains - Lakeshire
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: There are two NPC merchants in Lakeshire that are named Lindsay
Ashlock and Amy Davenport. Switching the name/last names gives you Lindsay
Davenport a professional tennis player. I did a google seach and Amy Ashlock
does not give any partiular names.
Note: N/A

Elwyn Forest
Name: Crazy Cat Lady
Location: Elwyn Forest
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: If you're leaving Northshire Abbey one of the first houses on your
you will find the Crazy Cat Lady. Being a fan of the simpsons, I think this
is a refrence to that woman.
Note: N/A

Name: Erotic Paintings
Location: Elwyn Forest
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: Seems the male guards of Westbrook Keep like to have erotic
where they keep guard. There's a picture of a bikini clad woman on the wall.
I noticed this as well, mostly because I stared at it for a few hours. ;)
Note: N/A

Name: I'm a Lumberjack
Location: Elwyn Forest - Eastvale Lumber Camp
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: In Monty Python's Flying Circus there was three men named Terry
Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Monty Python being well known for
their Lumberjack Song, Blizzard decided to put an NPC lumberjack inside the
Mill named Terry Palin.
Note: N/A

Westfall
Name: Juggernaught
Location: Westfall - Deadmines Instance
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: VanCleef's ship resembles that of the Juggernaught, a Warcraft II
Orc naval unit, there was also a secret model of this in Warcraft III that was
not used in Melee.
Note: N/A

Name: He's Back
Location: Westfall - Moonshire Inn
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: There's a jar on the table in the inn with an arm in it that
supposedly resembles Terminator 2 arm.
Note: N/A

Name: What's new Scooby Doo?
Location: Westfall
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: If you're standing at the exit of the Deadmine's instance and take
a left out of the cave you'll find a small little farm house with a NPC named
Daphne, she has red hair and a violet jacket. There's also a dog house, with
a picture of a scooby snack near it. Obvious refrence to the TV series, Scooby
Doo.
Note: N/A

Name: Van Cleef
Location: Westfall
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: Van Cleef, the rebel pirate and once mason of Stormwind has the
the name of a fashion brand. There's also Lee Van Cleef who was an actor who
started as the villan in many western movies with Clint Eastwood. He also
starred as some sort of Ninja master in one short TV series. Westfall also
being a sort of Western, farming sort of area. The Defias network is also
comprised of many ninja like followers.
Note: N/A

Name: Newland Landings
Location: Westfall
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: There's a secret house/dock north of Westfall. Get to the Westfall
coastline and follow it north for about 15 minutes. Once you find there is a
dock, old house, bones and a sign that says "Newland Landings".
Note: N/A


Duskwood
Name: Ambercrombie & Fitch
Location: Duskwood - Northeast of Raven Hill Graveyard
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: There's an old man named Ambercrombie, through completeing quests
you will learn that he is the creator of "Stiches". Ambercrombie and Fitch is
a fashion company.
Note: N/A

Name: Screaming
Location: Duskwood - Darkshire
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: One of the Blacksmiths in Darkshire talks about how the wind sounds
like lambs screaming, a refrence to "The Silence of the Lambs", enforcing this
more, her name is Clarice.
Note: N/A

Deadwind Pass

Swamp of Sorrows

Blasted Lands

Stranglethorn Vale
Name: Flowers From The Dead
Location: Stranglethorn Vale
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: You can pick-pocket red roses from Zanzil undead.
Note: N/A

Name: Frozen Solid
Location: Stranglethorn Vale
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: In the Mist Valley there is a baskilisk cave, outside are people in
horrified figures and various postions that have been turned to stone. If you
don't know a baskalisk, in other mythologies has the ability to turn a person
to stone if they look at the baskalisk's eyes.
Note: N/A

Name: Ernest Hemmingway
Location: Stranglethorn Vale - Hemet Nesingwary's Camp
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: Hemet Nesingway is an anagram of Ernest Hemmingway, a famous author
and hunter. He also gives a quest where you have to find the lost pages of his
book titled "Green Hills of Stranglethorn", refrencing to Ernest's book
"The Green Hills of Africa".
Note: N/A

Name: Goblin the Redeemer
Location: Stranglethorn Vale - Janeiro's Point
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: This is a ploy on "Christ the Redeemer". There is a giant goblin
statue in the harbor of Booty Bay with his arms stretched out.
Note: http://biblia.com/jesusart/rio-statue-13.jpg

Name: An Offer You Can't Refuse
Location: Stranglethorn Vale - Booty Bay
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: "Sea Wolf" Mckinley's quest Scaring Shaky may be a play on words
of Finding Nemo, just a guess though. In the quest it involves gathering the
Gorillia Giblets to scare "Shaky" Phillipe into paying the money he owes. This
is kind of the an imitation of "The Godfather" where they put a horse head
in a guy's bed because the Godfather's friend isn't accepted for a role in
the guy's movie.
Note: N/A

Name: Welcome To The Jungle
Location: Stranglethorn Vale - Nesingway's Camp
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: This is the name of the quest you get when you are instructed to
talk to Hemmingway. "Welcome To The Jungle" is the name of a kick arse Guns N'
Roses song.
Note: N/A

Name: Old Man Hemming and The Sea
Location: Stranglethorn Vale - Booty Bay
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: Blizzard must really like Hemmingway. The fishing vendor in Booty
Bay is named Old Man Hemming, refrencing Hemmingway's book entitled "The Old
Man and The Sea".
Note: N/A

Name: A Tailor of Two Cities
Location: Stranglethorn Vale - Booty Bay
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: There is a shop inside Booty Bay named a Tailor of Two Cities,
refrencing Dicken's book "A Tale of Two Cities".
Note: N/A

Name: Tan That Hide
Location: Stranglethorn Vale - Booty Bay
Coordinates: N/A
Easter Egg: There's a leatherworking shop called "Tan Your Hide" which is
sort of ironic, the town you're being in called "Booty Bay".
Note: N/A

Name: Apocalypse Now
Location: The City or Region - Starnglethorn Vale
Coordinates: Easter Egg: The whole Kurzen chain of quests bears a resemblance
to the plot of Apocalypse Now. In Apocalypse Now, Kurtz went deep inside the
jungle. In World of Warcraft Kurzen went insane deep inside the jungle. And in
the end they both become beheaded. Apocalypse Now being based on Joseph
Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Note: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Apocalypse+Now

Name: Aquateen Reference
Location: Booty Bay, Stranglethorn Vale
Easter Egg: In Booty Bay, there is an NPC named "Oglethorpe Obnauticus." This
is a reference to Aquateen Hunger Force. In some episodes there is a character
named Oglethorpe (a short, spiky, orange alien with a thick Bavarian accent
and a partner named Emory). During one episode, Oglethorpe makes the quote:
"We shall consult the almighty Orbnauticus."